The prosecution includes in Netanyahu's enjoyment any appeal of its spokesmen to the media • If this is considered an offense, all press-politician relations will be criminal suspects • Opinion
Already more than a year ago, when the attempt by the police and the prosecutor's office to recruit Elovich to be a state witness was revealed through pressure on his son, and through his son, the Netanyahu files and the indictments had to be thrown away.
Along with the Attorney General and all the staff involved.
Now, as the justice system knows, they are putting the political system in a perfect storm.
Also an unprecedented outbreak of the corona plague, a tight closure, and also a very urgent need to get the prime minister into court for the start of his trial centered on a baseless indictment.
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There are two ways to get rid of the stinking corpse, as Bnei Gantz called the Harpaz affair at the time, of the connection to Netanyahu's removal.
One, that the court dismiss the charge against him.
The other, more tortuous, is the new idea of the prime minister and his lawyers requesting re-immunity.
Is it possible?
If so, this is a preferred way in which the Knesset is supposed to protect its members from attacks of investigations and the filing of indictments for the purpose of neutralizing political figures by legal officials and political forces, who have found indirect ways of governing.
This path can prevent disgrace from the police and the prosecution in the legal process.
The request for adjournment of the trial was a ladder that could be used by the court system to move to a procedure of recess during the closure period.
After all, in a normal situation, the courts would also have been closed by closure.
There are quite a few sick lawyers who are fighting for their lives, even judges.
The suspicion arises that the lawlessness of leaving the courts open while any other gathering is prohibited, is solely so that one defendant will have the right to open his trial, the Prime Minister.
The statement by Bnei Gantz that he will take care of keeping the courts open is incriminating in this context.
Many lawyers are outraged and unprepared for this health risk;
They are running tremendously on this matter.
The judges have kicked the ladder, and right now the ball of common sense is passing to the administration of the courts;
The matter is the responsibility of the Director of Courts, in coordination with Supreme Court President Esther Hayut.
But the main point is a request for repeat immunity.
The situation has changed.
This is not the same indictment that led to the removal of the prime minister's immunity in the previous round.
It turns out that the prosecution includes in the prime minister's headline pleasures any routine appeal by the prime minister's spokesmen to the media, including Walla !, on various issues concerning the prime minister's activities. All press-politician relations will be criminal. It is a complete absurdity and there is every justification for Knesset members to reconsider the immunity of the prime minister.
Another crucial issue that should nullify the whole procedure at all is the investigation of the Prime Minister without serious approval by the competent body, the Attorney General.
Mandelblit claims to have confirmed it orally.
On such a fateful subject some sort of record had to be found.
Even if there is no letter signed by the ombudsman, there must have been some memorandum of things, some note that Herzfeld wrote.